skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are mixing casual relationships. GPS was jammed because of the Ukrainian drone attack, it's a standard electronic warfare countermeasure and civilian planes are well equipped to fly without relying on GPS. And it's perfectly reasonable to close airports when you have a drone attack in the vicinity (e.g. it's done regularly in Moscow airports).

You can easily verify that the jamming has started _before_ the plane started to lose altitude. In the first place, your scenario makes little sense, since its useless to cover things with jamming while this cover will be immediately blown up by inspecting the black box records. And wouldn't it be better to land the plane on your territory for anyone attempting a cover up?
>> and we raised donations in various forms including cash ($137M, less than a third of which was from Elon)

The amount of trashy pique in OpenAI PR against Elon specifically is hilarious.

I'm no fan of the way either has behaved, but jesus, can't even skip an opportunity to slight him in an unrelated announcement?
Sounds like you got the onboarding email but not the confirmation email. It should have a subject of "Confirm your Account". Email us hi@statusgator.com if you still have issues.
The important bit (which seems unclear from this article), is the exact relationship between the for-profit and the not for profit?

Before, profits were capped, with remainder going to the non-profit to distribute benefits equally across the world in event of agi / massive economic progress from agi. Which was nice, as at least on paper, a plan for an “exit to humanity”.

This reads to me like the new structure might offer uncapped returns to investors, with a small fraction reserved to benefit the wider public via this nonprofit. So dropping the “exit to humanity”, which seemed like a big part of OpenAI’s original vision.

Early on they did some good research on this too, thinking about the investor model, and its benefits for raising money and having accountability etc in todays world, vs what the right structure could be post SI, and taking that conversation pretty seriously. So it’s sad to see OpenAI seemingly drifting away from some of that body of work.
The world is moving to build out a new infrastructure of energy, land use, chips, datacenters, data, AI models, and AI systems for the 21st century economy.

Emphasis mine.

Land use? Land use?

I do not welcome our new AI landlords, ffs.
Kind of already touched by drugs?
I am a happy foot user and I am considering switching from Sway to Niri. What has been your experience with Niri? One thing that concerns me about Niri is that it is not wlroots based. This means that many tools I accustomed to don't work with Niri. Do you have some dedicated tools for screen sharing, screen recording, screen printing, multi-monitor management, ...?
I don't know either, but thought about it a lot at one point.

First, you only respond to correctly encrypted/signed requests. Everything else you ignore.

So, second, once you have your valid request, you respond to it, also in an encrypted fashion. IIRC F-35 can use their radars, with their bean-forming abilities, for stealthy comms, sending a very narrow beam of radio signals to the recipient.

And if this is fantasy, I suppose by the time you receive an IFF query, you know you're about to be shot at. So you might as well respond, sacrificing stealth. Hence why you want to really be sure you're really asked by your side, rather than receiving a spoof request.

Airlines just broadcast a ton of public information about themselves, so they don't really need an IFF system. They put their hands up and say "don't shoot, I'm a civilian!".
I think a sufficiently large company would still pay - it'd likely be a drop in the bucket compared to hiring a legal team. (A troll like the one in the article? Still, depends on the price.)

I think it should switch to the strike system that YouTube, at least, favors: if you issue three fraudulent DMCA notices, you lose the ability to do so again in the future.
I used to be heavily into lucid dreaming back in the early 00s along with others in the Dream Views forum. That was a wild time with people making new ways to induce a lucid dreaming (with techniques usually ending in -ILD). If you told us this back then

> This research could lead to wearable devices programmed with algorithms that detect opportune moments to induce lucidity in people as they sleep

-we would’ve lost our minds. Above most other recent inventions, this really feels like the future
Used car salesman promises to save humanity.

What a bunch of pompous twits.

In other news, one of OpenAI's top talents, and first author on the GPT-1 paper, Alec Radford, left a few days ago to pursue independent research.

In additional other news, Microsoft and OpenAI have now reportedly agreed on a joint definition of relationship-ending AGI as "whatever makes $100B". Not kidding.
Ha actually like elon showed his peers recently, its "want countries" rather than "want yacht"
im gonna narrow down my predictions for whats gonna happen in India in 2025
the rupee value starts falling more and more and they keep raising taxes and avoiding the real problems and india starts to fail as a country
Record-low Antarctic sea ice in 2023 increased ocean heat loss and storms
Every letter of "AGI" means different things to different people, and the thing as a whole sometimes means things not found in any of the letters.

We had what I, personally, would count as a "general-purpose AI" already with the original release of ChatGPT… but that made me realise that "generality" is a continuum not a boolean, as it definitely became more general-purpose with multiple modalities, sound and vision not just text, being added. And it's still not "done" yet: while it's more general across academic fields than any human, there's still plenty that most humans can do easily that these models can't — and not just counting letters, until recently they also couldn't (control a hand to) tie shoelaces*.

There's also the question of "what even is intelligence?", where for some questions it just matters what the capabilities are, and for other questions it matters how well it can learn from limited examples: where you have lots of examples, ChatGPT-type models can be economically transformative**; where you don't, the same models *really suck*.

(I've also seen loads of arguments about how much "artificial" counts, but this is more about if the origin of the training data makes them fundamentally unethical for copyright reasons).

* 2024, September 12, uses both transformer and diffusion models: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/advances-in-robot-dext...

** the original OpenAI definition of AGI: "by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work" — found on https://openai.com/charter/ at time of writing
...until you spoof a new e-mail address. That won't scale well.
DSSS is magic. Truly. It's like you can create an ~infinite number of "new frequencies" to send on, each being orthogonal to any other, then chose them cryptographically as needed. With enough care it's possible to make it difficult for the adversary to even detect the presence of a signal. And the tech used by the likes of F-35 with MADL and low-probability-of-intercept radars may be even fancier than that.

That being said in the Red Sea incident they likely were not stealthy at all. For one F-18 has a rather big cross section, it's a 4th generation jet. For another the Houthis are not known to operate any sensible air defense (I may be wrong here, someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
I really like to copy on select in the terminal. Terminal.app used to have a hack available to add this feature in, but since SIP days, it is no longer possible.
Terminals are always welcome :) I hope you can add Win supoort so I can try it at work.

Congrats for the release and happy new year.
If I spend a couple hours or more doing "deep work" writing code, I often find I need an hour or two of cool-down time before I can really have much in the way of emotions again.
> Our current structure does not allow the Board to directly consider the interests of those who would finance the mission

Why should it? You can't serve two masters. They claim to serve the master of human-aligned AI. Why would they want to add another goal that's impossible to align with their primary one?
It's just business --- not politics.

Simply follow the money and it all becomes much clearer.

For over a decade, Mozilla has been a defacto Google subsidiary --- subversively supporting their goals as needed. All the while pretending to be a promoter of a "free" internet but actually achieving little in this regard --- just the way Google wants it.

The final nail in this coffin is the fact that Mozilla is now inexplicably arguing *for* a Google browser monopoly.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/internet-policy/google-r...

It's time to wake up and smell the coffee --- the only thing Mozilla really wants/needs is Google.
Yes.

An actual "thinking machine" would be constantly running computations on its accumulated experience in order to improve its future output and/or further compress its sensory history.

An LLM is doing exactly nothing while waiting for the next prompt.
Yes. Next question, please. And don't mention AGI.
So almost never?
Not very seriously.

The Iranians shot down a Ukrainian jet with Russian missile. Blaming Americans for the stupidity of Iranians is ridiculous.
“ OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.

We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as possible. The outcome of this venture is uncertain and the work is difficult, but we believe the goal and the structure are right.”

…

“ We’re hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We’ll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies.”

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/
Please don't try to diagnose people based on a couple paragraphs, on an internet forum, who didn't ask for a diagnosis in the first place.
For larger and more litigious companies like Nintendo one would think YouTube wouldn't continue to accept takedown requests from random unverified users
If you want to say that the USN is struggling to keep up with rapid changes in warfare I think you'd be correct.

We have a navy built to fight the Cold War and 21st century warfare is a looooot different. Cheap and effective missiles and drones are the new reality. And everybody knows the playbook for success against the US: a "regular" military will always struggle against irregular mobile forces that can melt back in to the general population.

However.

They've successfully shot down hundreds of Houthi drones and missiles with 100% success.

In that context, a single friendly fire incident (with no casualties) is regrettable but overall performance has been exemplary.

US Navy considers fighting the Houthis

It's disingenuous at best to frame it this way. The Houthis are funded by Iran, something of a near-peer in terms of capability (if not size) that has a pretty robust arms connection to Russia which is, well, Russia.
Shoutout to M. Sasek of the "This is..." series.
The ultimate video game rendering engine.
> This happens everywhere, just the other day an American F-18 was shot down by an American destroyer in the Red Sea, and an F-18 carries additional econfliction equipment that an airliner doesn't have.

The Houthis claim the F-18 was downed by them[1], so it's still not clear if this was an actual friendly fire incident. This is consistent with reports the carrier retreated to northern red sea soon after the incident.

[1] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241222-yemens-houthis-cl...
Is a human with short term memory loss - or otherwise unable to improve their skills - generally intelligent?
We must be at least web 4 or 5 by now. Look at all the revolutionary frameworks being released!
But can they afford it?
The airline would need to be deliberately avoiding them: the great-arc circle between those two passes directly over Grozny. Smart call to double-check that.
Funny.

But as we all know, the US Government is fully up for sale and has been for sale since the Citizens United Ruling. In fact, you can even get a Tax Deduction for buying a US Politician.
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> Elon Musk strong claim to get a significant portion of the equity owned by the non-profit, given his sizable investment when a contemporaneous valuation of the company would have been small

Sorry, what's the path to this? Musk's 'investment' was in the form of a donation, which means he legally has no more claim to the value of the nonprofit than anyone else.
Given lucidity more often arises in broken sleep, I wonder if historical biphasic sleep patterns meant that lucidity was much more common in the past. And so if there could be a correlation here with religious visions.

I was in a conversation recently with a christian convert who seemed to operate on the principle that the tenants of a religion are real if there are religious experiences which indicate it to be so -- and it became clear they meant in dreams, but not exactly dream-like states. At the same event there was a muslim who had family members with visions (and so on). I made the point that localised to each region of the world are its own cultural beliefs 'replayed back' in such states -- this is especially noticiable in schizophrenia where psychosis-based delusions are heavily mapped through a cultural lens (eg., some spy service is contacting them through 5G; and UFOs in a previous era; ghosts before then; and devils before then).

It does seem plausible that lucid dreaming offers a plausible explanation of religious 'visions' which occur in well-functioning people; and likewise a mechanism for why they are so encultured -- with gods of one locale appearing to adhearents there.

And if lucid dream were previously much more widespread, this offers an additional benefit of religious mythology, which is narrative material for the construction of these dreams.
OpenAI employees with unvested/unsold PPUs.
A human with short term memory loss still has agency and impatience.
Maybe if they sell the US some more Ozempic.
Honestly I was thinking about that. Or how to best display the new words, so I totally see your point. I might change this in the future, but for this first iteration I just thought: leave the English translation in and see how it works ...
IMO we are already at AGI. Hell, Norvig would argue we were there some time ago: https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-...

We just keep moving the goalposts.
Ghostty supports it (like many other terminals) - it is called shell integration and it is supposed to be enabled by default, just like in Terminal.app.
How bad is link-rot on my blog?
If you're in a mood for a monty-python-esque dystopia: Brazil (1985) is somewhat sci-fi-ish, as seen from the 20. Century. And it is “Christmas-themed“.
Ars' favorite games of 2024 that were not released in 2024
Same here. And I heard about it like a day after they talked about it... :)

Hoping another class opens up.
Would you let such a person handle an important task for you?
I'm surprised there's no mention of inducing/controlling lucid sex dreams for therapy or entertainment, but maybe I'm weirder than I thought.
There was a major power outage in the South Carolina data center, and I was on call for that. It's resolved now.
Infighting started sooner than I expected. I had my bets on the day after the inauguration.
Agency is essentially solved, we don't enable it in common models because of "safety"

Is impatience a requirement for general intelligence? Why?
Were you also afflicted with FalconView? My condolences.
Volatility decay means if QQQ is flat, TQQQ is negative. It also consumes your dividends.
There is a limited amount of computation that you can useful do in the absence of new input (like an LLM between prompts). If you do as much computation as you usefully can (with your current algorithmic limits) in a burst immediately when you receive a prompt, output, and then go into a sleep state, that seems obviously better than receive a prompt, output, and then do some of the computation that you can usefully do after your output.
Loyalty can go away.
Dietary creatine strongly associated with reduced depression risk
The democratisation of access to financial markets has had some beneficial knock-on effects like much cheaper cross-border payments.

Prior to 2010, banks were charging around 5% for a GBP-EUR transaction.

This is a benefit we all see - banks now can't get away with ripping people off like they used to, when I could make a cross border payment for less than 0.5% using a crypto exchange.

Also having the ability to hedge against quantitative easing has been a life-saver for many people.
> analyze every thing I could be doing wrong to annoy or offend people

Is this a "you" problem or a "they" problem?
Why did you stop? Did you gain any insights from your experience.

I think many of us nerds are intrigued by the concept of lucid dreaming but haven't actually explored the space. I skimmed a book on the subject in the mid 80's, but only tried the techniques a couple of times. Oddly, I still remember a couple of my lucid dreams.
Can't we just finetune the model based on the LLM's output? Has anyone tried it?
I came to the same conclusion about Temporal for these types of things. Interactive stuff that touches 1 DB? Do it in the API. Needs to coordinate >1 thing? Temporal.

Orchestrating a bunch of LLM calls is a perfect fit for Temporal.
> "At the end of the day we set out to raise $200K and we will end up with at least $1M towards rare disease research," Chen wrote. "No matter what, this has been a win for the world."

Will they, though? It sounds like right now they have zero dollars, just a bunch of memecoins.
ERJ-190 has 0 in-flight deaths caused by aircraft failure. In 2006 an Embraer Legacy jet collided mid-air with a boeing 737; The boeing fell to pieces, the Embraer landed safely[1]. In 2019 an Embraer ERJ-190 flew with misrrigged control cables; the aircraft was under extremely high structural load until pilots got enough control to land it safely[2].

Embraer engineers are clearly doing something right.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Transportes_A%C3%A9reos_Fl...
[2] https://aerossurance.com/safety-management/erj190-p4kcj-main...
You could also argue that the earth is flat and lots of people do.

No one can rationally argue that that was partly the US' responsibility, though.
Popeye and Tintin will soon lose copyright protection
The rate at which China has transformed its car industry is staggering
Considering we would be buying a debt of $36.273.473.800.000 i would say two fifty sounds like a fair price?
> Meanwhile, the actual products of the crypto industry are volatility and internet entertainment (fun, but hardly transformational).

You left off ransomware.
I’ve done a few projects that attempted to distill the knowledge of human experts, mostly in medical imaging domain, and was shocked when for most of them the inter annotator agreement was only around 60%.

These were professional radiologists with years of experience and still came to different conclusions for fairly common conditions that we were trying to detect.

So yes, LLMs will make mistakes, but humans do too, and if these models do so less often at a much lower cost it’s hard to not use them.
Username checks out. ;-)
I'm wondering about this too. I looked at it and don't see any reasons to switch away from kitty, which is just as fast, has more features, and has never given me trouble. Kovid is a fantastic developer who's very responsive and fixes bugs in sometimes literal minutes after they were reported.
Revised Corporate Mottoes for 2025
Political donations have never been tax deductible. What are you talking about?
We are thinking machines and we keep thinking because we have one goal which is to survive, machines have no such true goals. I mean true because our biology forces us to do that
Look at Nintendo, they're creating opportunities even when they try to stop anyone from using their things.
The dead or mostly dead malls around where I live don't seem very attractive for housing or mixed residential/retail. They'd still be very car-centric, aren't in especially upscale areas, and I'm not sure how much you'd actually want to preserve.

The closest I'm specifically aware of in the US in Santana Row in the South Bay but that's not really residential (maybe there's some but I'm only aware of the hotels)--and, while there are a fair number of restaurant options--you don't really have groceries or other retail that people would want on a day to day basis AFAIK.
I don't understand why they are spending so much time and effort trying to put a positive spin on this whole for-profit thing. No one is buying it. We all know what's going on. Just say "we want to make lots of money" and move on with your lives.
Plus: it has MiniDisc, the coolest media format.
This take seems fundamentally wrong to me. As in opening premise.

We use humans for serious contexts & mission critical tasks all the time and they're decidedly fallible and their minds are basically black boxes too. Surgeons, pilots, programmers etc.

I get the desire for reproducible certainty and verification like classic programming and why a security researcher might push for that ideal, but it's not actually a requirement for real world use.
Their charter defines AGI as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work", and their intent is to ""directly build safe and beneficial AGI" or "[aid] others to achieve this".

They don't address benefits beyond the wide-scale automation of economically-valuable work, and as those benefits require significant revisions to social structures it's probably appropriate that they keep their mouth shut on the subject.
Well, they do have a github..
https://github.com/kuflex

Looks like it was written in C++
A signal we used when picking out books for our kids was to avoid any book that had a silver foil medal on the cover announcing it had won the Newbery or some other award. These books often had an eat-your-vegetables vibe about them. They were books adults thought kids should like but rarely were ones that our kids would go back to again and again.
Not to take the blame off politicians, but there is an intermediate step. Citizens United allows unlimited spending on advertising. You still can't buy politicians directly. You still have to get voters to vote for them.

This is on us. We have the responsibility to look at the advertising and make a choice.

We are so, so much worse at it than I would ever have believed.
Sure people are not the best creatures, but it is part of the painful learning curve
None of them remotely resemble an E190 though, which is about 50x the size of a cruise missile, communicates effectively with air traffic control and broadcasts ADS-B signals telling you what it is (at least when you're not jamming it...)
If it's a set of unchanging static pages, making sure it's part of archive.org might be the best way.
Slowness is a general problem with cars.
May be off topic question. Does Greenland hold any strategic interest to Denmark?
Using AI to write an Ada/SPARK parser combinator library
This hints at the margin and excitement from folks outside the technical space -- being able to be competitive to human outputs at a fraction of the cost.